Archive for February, 2007
Learning to love the follow-through
Posted by Sharon 20 February 2007A previous blog touched on the need for follow up and like many people, I love starting new things, but struggle a bit with the follow-through. I am fascinated with follow-through in business - maybe it’s that old adage “we teach best what we most need to learn” - so I have been re-reading […]
Sharing Ideas at nPODS - Goran Carstedt
Posted by Sharon 20 February 2007I recently enjoyed immersing myself in ideas for two days solid at the National People & Organisation Development Summit organised by Andrew & Tammie Greatrex of Global Leaders Network. I vowed publicly to summarise the sessions I attended but of course work got in the way, so I have chunked the task down to summarise […]
Management Innovation - is this an oxymoron?
Posted by Sharon 20 February 2007A recent article by Gary Hamel, titled ‘The Why, What and How of Management Innovation‘, intrigued me, but I wasn’t sure what it meant. I’m familiar with product, process and service innovation but management innovation? In my opinion there’s a word missing - the article is really talking about management process innovation, but obviously that’s […]
Analysis but not Paralysis
Posted by Sharon 6 February 2007Over the holidays, I (Sharon) read an eclectic collection of books - from Storytelling in Organisations, to Design philosophy, to Evidence based Management, to the McKinsey approach to consulting, to Reframing Organisations and the First 90 Days for new leaders.
One thread that runs through a lot of these books is effective analysis […]
Want real commitment to change? Tune to WII-FM
Posted by Sharon 2 February 2007I often get asked “How can I get my staff to commit to this change?” and I laugh internally at the implication in the words. It’s human nature to want others to give first, but it’s been my experience that leaders need to be prepared to give in order to get.
One way of ‘giving’ […]